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Employer Quotes

The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Information Technology (IT)

They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education

 

The quotes below are about this issue:
While some employers send incumbent employees off-site for training, many have professional development units that develop in-house training. Vendor training is frequently used for new software/technologies that businesses purchase.

Employer Quote Region
"In my area, it's not necessarily a formal program to sit down in some classroom training or anything like that, but it's certainly a grooming process that is facilitated by supervisors and leaders." Northeast
"We have a couple of things in place that help drive that. We have an internal program that we call High-Tech [lost in translation], which teaches soft skills and tries to instill some sort of understanding of what the stuff is supposed to do. And not just make it work, but why businesses have things like this. The business acumen piece, we actually require people that are in senior positions of leadership to sit on non-profits boards or to go through the leadership [lost in translation]—things like that to help unplug for a second from the industry and hone those business skills." Northeast